Kentucky football safety Ashely Lowery injured in wreck in Georgia

10:16 PM,
May 4, 2013

Ashely Lowery was reportedly thrown from the vehicle.

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Ashely Lowery, starting safety for the University of Kentucky football team, was seriously injured in a car accident early Saturday morning in his home state of Georgia and is hospitalized, a school spokesman confirmed.

Lowery, 20, was involved in a single-car accident in White County that was called in around 4:20 a.m., said Brandon Marcus, a Georgia State Patrol dispatcher.

The car overturned several times and Lowery, who was not wearing a seat belt, was thrown and landed approximately 100 feet from the car's resting place, according to Gordy Wright, director of public information for ...